Lamoral, Count of Egmont
General and statesman in Flanders (1522-1568) · Politicians · Died at 45
Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere was a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising that eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands.
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The duke of Alba arrests Egmont and Hoorne after an invitation for a meal, September 1567 (from Pieter Christiaanszoon Bor: Oorsprongh, begin en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, 1621
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Egmont and Hoorne, from Pieter Christiaanszoon Bor: Oorsprongh, begin en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, 1621
